New York State Police crime scene investigators search for clues at a roadside vegetable stand in Oswegatchie, N.Y., Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014, as they investigate the abduction of two Amish sisters. Delila, 6 and Fannie Miller, 12, were reported as being abducted from the stand around 7:30 on Wednesday evening. (AP Photo/Watertown Daily Times, Melanie Kimber-Lago) ORG XMIT: NYWAT501

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Two missing Amish sisters turned up safe Thursday evening, about 24 hours after they were apparently abducted from their family's roadside farm stand in northern New York, authorities said.

St. Lawrence County District Attorney Mary Rain said the girls turned up cold and wet but unharmed at a home in Richville, about 13 miles from where they disappeared in the rural town of Oswegatchie.

She said 12-year-old Fannie and 7-year-old Delila Miller were dropped off and knocked on the door, asking for help getting home. A neighbor who visited the Miller family after hearing word of the girls' return said she spoke with one of their brothers, who said they were well and being checked out.

There were no details immediately available on what happened to the girls or if there are suspects in their disappearance.

The sisters vanished at about 7:30 p.m. Wednesday after a white car pulled up to the farm stand and they went down to tend to the customers while the rest of their family stayed at a barn for the evening milking.

When the family noticed the girls hadn't returned, they quickly checked the cornfield, she said, knowing it was unlikely they would have wandered off. That's when police were notified, and an Amber Alert was sent out.

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"We were down there last night. I cooked a casserole, cake, stuff like that, and took it down to them," neighbor Dot Simmons said. "I talked to the mother and consoled her."

Searchers had scoured far northern New York for the girls in a hunt hampered by the lack of photos of the girls for authorities to circulate among a frightened community.

Because the Amish tend to shun modern technology, police had no photographs of the girls.

The girls are among the youngest of Mose and Barb Miller's 13 children, who range in age from 1 to 21 years, Simmons said.

The girls routinely took on the chore of selling the fruits, vegetables, jams and other products of the farm, Simmons said.

"It's absolutely amazing," she said of their return.

St. Lawrence County is home to New York's second-largest Amish population, which has grown in the past decade because of productive land and property prices lower than in Pennsylvania. The Amish are helped law enforcement get the word out the old-fashioned way — by word of mouth.

The Rev. Rusty Bissell, of Cornerstone Wesleyan Church in nearby Heuvelton, invited the community to the prayer service. He described a small, tight-knit community where even small children walk to school. That, he said, has changed overnight.

"There are no kids outside anywhere today," Bissell said. "There are no kids on bikes, and that's unusual."